What Vajpayee Had Earned, Modi Has Lost

The two former PMs – Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Manmohan Singh – did not try to derive political gains from the military action.

In this episode of ‘Bol Ke Lab Azaad Hain Tere’, senior journalist Abhisar Sharma explains Narendra Modi’s politics behind the “Surgical Strike”. Citing examples of Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Manmohan Singh, he talks about how the two former PMs did not try to derive political gains from the military action. Modi government, however, has been politicising the military for long.